Gaceta Oficial
Cuba's official state gazette, which publishes decree-laws and implementing rules.
Gaceta Oficial is Cuba's official state gazette, the publication of record for decree-laws and resolutions; its 16 July 2026 issue carried a 64% cooking-gas price rise, with no implementing rule yet published for June's private-banking reform.
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Where are Cuba's private-banking reform rules actually written down?
Timeline for Gaceta Oficial
Published Decreto 160 in edition 62 Ordinaria on 28 July
Cuba Dispatch: Decreto 160 flips Cuba's default to yesPublished Resolution 155/2026 on 16 July
Cuba Dispatch: Cuba blames blockade for 64% gas risePublished issue No. 54 without an implementing rule
Cuba Dispatch: Cuba's private-bank law, no licence yetBackground
The Gaceta Oficial de la Republica de Cuba is the Cuban state's official legal gazette, the publication of record in which decree-laws, ministerial resolutions and economic measures acquire legal force. It is the instrument analysts and lawyers watch to judge whether an announced Cuban reform has become real administrative law or remains a political statement.
Gaceta Oficial No. 62 Ordinaria, published 28 July 2026, carried Decreto 160/2026, which took force on 4 August and replaced the flat list of 125 prohibited private-sector activities with a default-permitted regime, de-listing 46 activities and relaxing 35 more. The decree's own publication, three months after the banking reform's gazette silence, shows the gazette can carry a substantial liberalising measure through to force relatively quickly once the text is ready, even as the banking reform's implementing rules remain unpublished.
The gazette moves faster on revenue
Cuba's Parliament passed a 176-measure reform legalising private banks and dollar accounts on 18 June 2026, but by 1 July the gazette's most recent issue, No. 54 of 29 June, carried no rule for approving a private bank, and none had appeared as of early August. Until Banco Central de Cuba writes one, the reform's banking chapter stays on paper.
By contrast, on 16 July the gazette published Resolution 155/2026, a 64% rise in the price of a 10kg bottled cooking-gas cylinder, reaching 1.7 million contracted customers, within days of the government's decision. The gap shows the gazette moving quickly on measures that raise state revenue while the banking reform, which would devolve state control, remains unimplemented.
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